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  • Holden Beach crime report

    Holden Beach Police officers investigated the following incidents and issued the following citations. All information is taken directly from police logs and citations.

    •Larceny and burglary on Lions Paw Street; suspect stole three pairs of earrings, two bracelets and purse from victim.

    •Larceny on Tarpon Street; suspect stole a bottle of liquor, Rockband, a Wii and a TV.

    •Larceny and burglary on Ocean Boulevard West; suspect stole a portable handheld radio from the Tri-Beach Volunteer Fire Department, which was later recovered.

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  • Crime report

    Brunswick County Sheriff’s deputies investigated the following incidents last week, which are taken directly from incident reports.

    •Larceny on Bay Tree Court in Ocean Isle Beach; suspect stole medicine and money from victim’s home.

    •Breaking and entering and larceny on White Oak Drive in Ocean Isle Beach; suspect broke victim’s back window and stole several guns.

    •Assault with a deadly weapon on Liberty Street in Ash; suspect assaulted victim with a baseball bat.

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  • Leland crime report

    Leland police officers investigated the following incidents and made the following arrests last week. All information is taken directly from patrol activity reports.

    •Pursuant to a traffic stop on Lanvale Road, Barry Hern, 46, of 9196 Highland Hills Drive, Leland was charged with possession of marijuana. Norma Jean Holden, 47, of 9196 Highland Hills Drive, Leland was also charged with possession of marijuana.

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  • Man steals tractor, causes accident; charged with DWI

    A Holden Beach man allegedly stole a farm tractor from a Shell Point Road home before taking off on it and causing an accident.

    Jason Cale Fulford, of 194 Ocean Boulevard, is accused of stealing a man’s 1973 farm tractor from his home around 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 14.

    N.C. State Highway Patrol Trooper Matt Strangman said Fulford was traveling south on Shell Point Road when he collided head-on with an on-coming vehicle. The other driver saw Fulford swerving as he drove and attempted to move out of Fulford’s way, but was unable to do so.

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  • Two arrested after three-month investigation

    After a three-month investigation, agents with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit arrested two suspects after executing a search warrant at the suspects’ Bolivia home.

    Kendrick Lavar Bellamy, 30, and 31-year-old Robyn Kascina Davis, both of 50 Dan Reaves Road, Bolivia, were arrested and each placed on a $500,000 secured bond at the Brunswick County Detention Center.

    According to Sgt. Steve Lanier, the investigation is ongoing, and more arrests are expected.

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  • S.C. man convicted of wire fraud in Calabash

    RALEIGH—A South Carolina man has been convicted in federal court for defrauding hundreds of customers in a furniture store scam.

    Henry Rayford Privette Jr., 49, of Johns Island, S.C., was convicted on Aug. 13 for 10 counts of wire fraud by a federal grand jury.

    Privette was first indicted by a federal grand jury on Nov. 28, 2007.

    According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Privette operated Carolina Furniture, an Internet-based furniture store in Calabash, from 2000 to late 2003.

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  • K-9 Enforcement Team roundup

    The Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office recently launched its newest law enforcement initiative, the K-9 enforcement team.

    The team, comprised of five K-9 officers and their dogs, is similar to the sheriff’s office community policing program, which targets areas with high crime and drug activity, but the K-9 enforcement team is its own patrol division.

    The K-9 enforcement team answers calls, conducts driver’s license checkpoints and assists with other agencies when K-9s are needed.

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  • WBHS student newspaper wins four state awards

    The West Wind, West Brunswick High School’s student-produced newspaper won four awards from the annual North Carolina Scholastic Media Association, a statewide contest awarding excellence in school and sports news reporting, advertising and production of student produced publications.

    The newspaper was awarded with the “Newspaper of Honor” award, which was previously called an “achievement” award.

    Chandler Inions, who will serve as this year’s editor, won third place in sports journalism for his sports column “Tobacco Road.”

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  • County adds second DARE officer

    Two new faces will be roaming the halls of Brunswick County middle schools this year—DARE officers Adam Stanley and Bradley Huggins.

    County commissioners on Monday approved the addition of a seventh-grade DARE program at Brunswick County middle schools at the request of the board of education.

    Fifth-graders in Brunswick County have been through the DARE program since 1992, but this the first time seventh-graders will go through the program.

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  • Schools reorganize bus routes to become more fuel efficient

    The cost of gas may greatly affect a family with one or two vehicles, but Brunswick County Schools has 161 buses that use about 1,700 gallons of fuel every day.

    To help offset the cost, the district has reworked a few bus routes and stops, hoping to use the district’s fuel as effectively and as efficiently as possible.

    Steve Miley, executive director of operations, said there were 6,400 rides last year and about 4,000 stops. About 10 percent of the routes were affected in this year’s cleanup.

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